AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[olaftab]

It's ten minutes past nine in UK and he is still at Villa park...come on Randy PULL
I will be on here in an hour or two to get the good nay great news.

[ozzjim]

Hopefully confirmed this morning then I can go to pub to celebrate

I'd wait to see who they appoint before you get the bunting up.

Not hard to improve on him though!
Saying that, I hope this board to have the brains to get someone decent in and have learnt from this.

Harry Redknapp's wife could do a better job than McLeish. Randy has succeeded in lowering expectations so much that the fan base would be happy with a solid manager that even if not too exciting.

[jembob]

I have seen this Mcleish quote earlier in the thread

“But for three minutes last season and one goal I would have been probably the greatest manager in Birmingham’s history – that’s how fine a line it is.”

Initially I thought it was a spoof comment but to see that he actually made that comment in his defence is comical. If he's prepared to say stuff like that to the press, just imagine what the players have had to put up with this season - no wonder they haven't responded to him.

The sooner we cleanse the club of him the better. Hopefully there will be time to sign up Carlos too!

[Rick_avfc]

Mcleish really needs to stop talking as he is only embarrassing himself even more.

[pembroke sidney]

randy needs to act swiftly to avoid the mistakes of the past two seasons, sack macleish yesterday and appoint his replacement asap.  Lambert looks like a decent shout but it's pretty slim pickings out there.

[N'ZMAV]

I'm going to go out and get totally bladdered on Sat if he get's sacked this week. I'm going to ruin my liver.

[PaulTheVillan]

I'm going to go out and get totally bladdered on Sat if he get's sacked this week. I'm going to ruin my liver.

Sounds very good, then I'll be off to see Black Sabbath on the night. Please happen.

[supertom]

"But for losing so many matches, not winning the league, the champions league and FA Cup, I'd be Aston Villas greatest ever manager. It's all fine margins." Alex McLeish 15/5/2012 (carrying his office stuff in a cardboard box to his car).

[N'ZMAV]

I'll phone him and sack him if you like, Randy?

[London Villan]

And I'd make it clear he was sacked, none of this mutual consent rubbish, even if it cost an extra million...

The worst league performance in terms of winning games in 138 years of football. That is some achievement.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Hopefully confirmed this morning then I can go to pub to celebrate

I'd wait to see who they appoint before you get the bunting up.

Is that a euphemism?

[mattjpa]

All over the media today that we have lambert lined up. Not my first choice but could be a great decision by rl and co.

[Concrete John]

I was having a think about this last night and the biggest fault of Mcleish, for me anyway, is not the way he has tried to get us playing, but that he has failed at doing so.

Yes, he is a defensive minded manager.  I don't watch much Scottish league football, but what I saw of his Scotland national and Birmingham sides were solid at the back, get the basics right and although we won't score many, the ones we do will count.  Most would not be happy with that, but I would be if the results were there.  However, we weren't tight at the back, could barely take a throw in correctly and results were shit.  More than that, there was no cohesion between the players and we mostly looked liked 11 strangers playing together.  I think he did try to get us to pass it around a bit, but we failed at that also.

I guess what I'm getting at is that I want him gone not because of the type of manager he is, but that he has singularly failed to install any form of game plan on to the team. 

[N'ZMAV]

The rumour that Randy put a clause in his contract that his pay-out would be less if under 40 points is a bit odd, surely if that was in there Randy had doubts that we'd get 40 points, this is all one huge fucking car crash. Needs fixing now.

[pauliewalnuts]

I want him gone for both reasons. I hated his ultra defensive approach at Blues. I thought he'd realise he wouldn't get away with it here, but he tried anyway.

The scary thing is, despite the evidence of several seasons now, as late as yesterday he was doing his "I'm not negative" thing. This minutes after a meaningless last day fixture at a promoted side, where at one point he'd had seven defenders on the pitch.

It was also interesting to see that very often, his approach to a defence which leaked goals wasn't to work with the back four, it was to throw more defenders on.

You're right, he didn't manage to do what he wanted to do, but that would have just been a more defensively tight version of what we got, which would still have been brutal to behold.

Sorry, I can find no sympathy for him at all. I used to think he was at least a decent bloke, but with some of the nonsense he has spouted recently, he has moved fully into O'Leary territory.